In yesterday's links post, I referred to Billy Beane's contract as practically a lifetime deal. Sometime after I posted, Rob Neyer ran an article at Baseball Nation asking whether Beane will be an Athletic forever. Neyer compares David Forst (and Jed Hoyer, for that matter) to Riker on Star Trek, which I think is just about the meanest thing someone could ever say about Forst.

Buster Olney writes ($$$) that the contract hardly guarantees anything, noting that Lew Wolff has been fine with Beane pursuing opportunities with other teams before, and that the Dodgers, at the very least, might be looking for a new operations team soon.